Why does San Francisco feel so weird during this tech boom while Oakland is more or less still Oakland?

An eye-opening reckoning with the most mythologized free-speech case in American history—a legend that has shaped politics for half a century.In 1977, neo-Nazis announced plans to demonstrate in Skoki...

A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.

Sisi is a Volvo Ocean 65 racing sailboat. She is fast as hell and built for sickos. She is not a comfortable luxury yacht, I assure you. Sisi is a frightening, angry, 72-foot, 12-ton sea monster.  Sis...

Sisi is a Volvo Ocean 65 racing sailboat. She is fast as hell and built for sickos. She is not a comfortable luxury yacht, I assure you. Sisi is a frightening, angry, 72-foot, 12-ton sea monster.  Sis...

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

The starting point for any honest discussion.

Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...

It takes an open mind to engage with China Miéville’s work. A writer for whom the already cliched phrase “genre-bending” is even more banal, Miéville has never opposed the designation of genre writer....

Fair warning: This is a short blog post in which you are going to encounter exhausting behavior from some fellas who will leave you pining for the restoration of our culture’s sense of shame. Texas be...

I have an item of constructive criticism for our nation’s sports broadcast directors, or like “production truck” guys or whatever, and it is: Never fucking do this, you motherfuckers! That’s Joey Gall...

Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set: hyper-rationalists, futurists, effective altruists. Tech-industry guys. Y...

Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set: hyper-rationalists, futurists, effective altruists. Tech-industry guys. Y...